Today's topic, The Cat Bear and music. Things are getting hard for some
podcasters, especially for podcasters that are creating musically. They know how to make
a podcast more than talk. Podcasting is supposed to be a variety of things.
When it comes to music, things can be challenging. I knew from
the beginning that I couldn't play copyrighted music, so I chose to play the
keyboard and make my own music. I chose the category music commentary. The
podcast The Cat Bear is not really a music show like Ksey Ksum's America's Top
forty. It is not radio. It is talk about music, artists and
songs. It is not the record album. It is not the song that
you hear on the radio playing. And I didn't think I would get as
far as I have gotten because my podcast is not radio. Outside from the
Internet, I have a few fans. They said they didn't want to hear
talk, they wanted to hear music. One of my fans said, Gil,
you better pull out that keyboard. So I started making my own music
for intros to start my podcast. I have tried to make my own jingles.
I'll just say it's really been an experiment. At first, I didn't
want to spend time making music. I wanted to go ahead and just do
the podcast because playing music and editing can be a lot of work. Then
you have to write the things you say and all that. Those things take
time, and you want to give the podcast company the best that you can
give, and you want to give your audience your best. So I have
used royalty free music to speed things up. Sometimes using what's already out there
is good too. You'll be helping others to be heard talking about your favorite
song, and using your own music is good. But each platform has its
own rules and guidelines. Everybody's worried about copyright. Then again, people are
not worried about it. I read somewhere that Spotify let you include music as
part of the podcast as long as you are exclusively on Spotify. Things keep
changing constantly. One day the answer may be yes, and another day the
answer maybe no. If you have permission to play your favorite artist in your
podcast, make sure you write in your notes by permission. Some artists are
under Creative Commons license. You might can play those artists, but I wouldn't
monetize because, like I said, things are always changing. I'm Gael Nobles
and you're listening to the cat bear